Most influential philosopher of our time Bernard-Henri Lévy to call for the salvation of Europe from Sarajevo

SARAJEVO, (Patria) - The play “Looking for Europe” by French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy will be performed on May 13 at the National Theatre in Sarajevo, as part of a major tour of 20 European cities that Lévy is visiting before the European Parliament elections from May 23 to 26, writes Patria agency.

“Looking for Europe” is a monologue of an intellectual taking place in a hotel room in Sarajevo, through which Lévy calls for democratic resistance and the revival of hope in the weeks leading up to the European elections.

The text of “Looking for Europe” is written and adapted to the political situation and current events in each of the 20 cities where the play will be performed.

The play will be performed in French with electronic subtitling in the language of the host country.

French philosopher, writer, and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of the most influential and engaged intellectuals of our time. His fierce stances on politicians and social events, his criticisms of nationalism and populism, provoke reactions, and often controversies, around the world. He was particularly engaged in stopping the bloodshed in the Balkans, and was one of the first world intellectuals to come to Sarajevo in 1992, a city besieged by the Serbian army. He was among the first to call for Western military intervention to stop the destruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people.

With his play, Lévy is traveling across Europe and sending a clear message that Europe must not betray itself in the 21st century, “as it did in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning and end of the 20th century.”

In a manifesto Levy wrote in early January this year, signed by 29 other world-renowned writers, the French philosopher warns that Europe is in danger and that it is now necessary to fight for the idea of Europe before it disappears in the waves of populism.

The play “Looking for Europe” will be performed on the stage of the National Theatre Sarajevo starting at 7:30 PM.